CHINESE PEN DRIVE/ FLASH DRIVE FORMATTING

CHINESE PEN DRIVE/ FLASH DRIVE

I find some of my friends bought Chinese pen drive /flash drive about 80GB/120 GB etc and could not use it. When we insert the pen drive in computer,it shows the capacity (or Memory )of the pen drive .But we could not format and  use it.Even from 'Disk management' we could not format the pen drive. Reason behind is while we are about to format through windows OS neither it shows FAT32 nor NTFS. In FAT32 file system the maximum capacity to format upto 32 GB only. However, the pen drive 40/80/120 GB cannot be partitioned in FAT32 nor it supports NTFS format. So, it will not display either FAT or NTFS file system drop down of Pen drive.

But there is solution for this...! You can format those pen drive by utilizing this software tool. You can download it from HERE.

 

Just follow the on screen menu and format the pen drive using FAT32 as quick format. 

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ENABLE / DISABLE USB PORT

ENABLE / DISABLE USB PORT (THROUGH REG EDIT)

These days the main form of data theft is by means of Pen drive . More than 90 % of data theft is happening with PEN drive /Flash drive. It is very essential to prevent from data theft. This can be done by Enabling and Disabling of USB port of our personal computers, so any unauthorized person can not copy away your data. By simply change the registry value in the "regediter" command we can do this. So that the data in your systems can't be copied into any other USB portable drives or pen drives. Remember even the external Back up medium like external hard disk also can not work after you modify this.

Here is the steps:

To enable the USB port

Start->Run->regedit-> ( Navigate to the following line )
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR
"Start"=dword:00000003.
 
To disable the USB port

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\USBSTOR]
"Start"=dword:00000004
that's it . Now your computer is risk free from data theft by pen drive.


Here is the screen shot of doing the above said procedure:

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